Kim Stanley Robinson's new novel delivers a powerful vision of Earth in crisis and Earth transformed, but fails as a program for change
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UN REPORT
Action Needed Now to Solve Triple Emergency
Urgent appeal to end the 'senseless and suicidal' war on nature by transforming social and economic systems
Deadly heat
Global Ice Melt: Much Faster Than Predicted
Glaciers are disappearing up to twice as fast as previous studies estimated, with disastrous effects on many communities
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Lithium, Batteries and Climate Change
The transition to green energy does not have to be powered by destructive and poisonous mineral extraction.
Reading matters
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, February 2021
Pandemic Century; Outlaw Ocean; America’s Dirty Secret; Deep Carbon; Clean Energy; Another End of the World
Commodity cod & factory ships
Intensive Fishing and the Birth of Capitalism, Part 1
Beginning a series on the role of fishing in the birth and spread of capitalism, and the role of capitalism in today’s mass extinction of ocean life.
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Are UN climate talks leading to a global dictatorship?
Climate Leviathan warns that a worldwide imperial state is on the agenda, but provides no credible arguments or evidence.
A practical legal maxim
‘The health of the people should be the supreme law’
An ancient principle of justice points to solutions for today’s four-fold mega-crisis
Public Meeting, February 6
Crisis in the Amazon: A Planetary Challenge
Can the world's most important rain forest be saved?
Reading for reds & greens
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, Jan. 2021
Capitalism and Community; Engels and Nature; After Covid-19; The Marx Revival; For Degrowth; Super Polluters; How to Blow Up a Pipeline.
Two-Party Dead-End
Bidenfreude:
Covid-19 in Post-Trump U.S.
We're glad Trump lost, but Biden's win brings no joy. It's time for real alternatives.
Despite Covid Slowdown
Upper Ocean Temperatures Set a New High Record in 2020
Over 90% of the excess heat due to global warming is absorbed by the oceans
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Amber Waves: A Biography of Wheat
It took thousands of years for wheat to evolve from a wild grass into a highly productive source of food. Can it help address global hunger in our time?
Exceptions have become the norm
Capitalism and Catastrophe
Covid and climate change aren't aberrations: they are aspects of the system's permanent global crisis.
Climate Crisis, by the numbers
Record number of billion-dollar disasters struck U.S. in 2020
An extraordinary year for extreme weather and climate events in the United States.
Worsening Covid’s wrath
Ecosystem Destruction Fueled the Pandemic. Pollution Makes It Worse.
A small increase in long-term exposure to polluted air leads to a large increase in Covid-19 death rates.
Movement Building in 2021
New Challenges in South Africa’s Fight for Climate Justice
Patrick Bond: The deaths of four frontline KwaZulu-Natal activists and another oil refinery explosion in Durban define the battlegrounds in 2021
Reading Matters
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, December 2020
Winter Solstice reading for reds and greens
Movement Building
Ecosocialism: A Vital Synthesis
Pioneer ecosocialist Michael Löwy on the red-green alternative to the unsustainable status quo, and the movement for a Great Transition
Révolution écosocialiste
A strategic perspective for uniting ecosocialists in Québec
Newly formed 'Révolution écosocialiste' organization proposes a green, ecosocialist and democratic program for building a mass movement in the 21st century